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9780817910549

Eight Questions You Should Ask About Our Health Care System (Even if the Answers Make You Sick)

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    9780817910549

  • ISBN10:

    0817910549

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2010-07-01
  • Publisher: Hoover Institution Press

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Summary

Charles E. Phelps provides a comprehensive look at our health-care system, including how the current system evolved, how the health-care sector behaves, and a detailed analysis of "the good, the bad, and the ugly" parts of the system-from technological advances (the "good") to variations in treatment patterns (the "bad") to hidden costs and perverse incentives (the "ugly"). He shows that much of the cost of health care ultimately derives from our own lifestyle choices and thus that education may well be the most powerful form of health reform we can envision.

Author Biography

Charles E. Phelps is University Professor and Provost Emeritus at the University of Rochester.

Table of Contents

Forewordp. ix
Prefacep. xi
Acknowledgmentsp. xiii
How Did we Get into this Mess, and Why Will It Get Worse?p. 1
When is Less Insurance Better than More?p. 31
How Does Good Technology Go Bad? A Tale of Two Cities (and More)p. 49
Why is the Employer-Paid Foundation of Health Insurance Riddled with Termites?p. 73
Do Dollars Distort Doctor's Decisions?p. 87
Why are We all Killing Ourselves?p. 105
Why is Our K-12 Educational System a Public Health Menace?p. 125
Where Does the Congress Miss Opportunities and Hit Potholes?p. 139
Referencesp. 145
About the Authorp. 151
About the Hoover Institution's Working Group on Health Care Policyp. 152
Indexp. 153
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